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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



entrance? Rear! the correspondence 

 on this head, that crops up as regu- 

 larly as the doctor's bill or the tax- 

 collector, and you will find the evi- 

 dence so divided that you are driven 

 To decide for yourself, and be your 



own jury. 



Is it best to have entrances full 

 width or narrow; quilts porous or non- 

 porous; foundation, full sheets or 

 starters? Head the information con- 

 veyed in whatever bee papers you 

 read, and do at once what you will 

 have to do finally, i. e., decide for 

 yourself, and buy experience a bit; do 

 a bit of mental mastication, instead of 

 having the pabulum prepared by an- 

 other organism, having different sur- 

 roundings to your own. 



Is it best to put a second crate or 

 super (either frames or sections) under 

 or on top of the first? Try both your- 

 self, and then you get teaching of the 

 oighest osder, for the conditions of 

 weather, state of stock, inflow of 

 honey, condition of first crate, etc., 

 vary so much that no one can decide 



for you. 



Is i; use sections at back, 



, top, or under hives, -hallow 

 frames or standard size for extracting ? 

 When you ask the question think 

 well on the answer before you make 

 any change in your hives involving 

 expense, and onh decide on dob 

 when you tire convinced of the 



dom . 



[s ii use hanging frames for 



sections, or the usual crate, or ex- 

 cluder zinc or none, or plain excluder 

 laid ban.' on the frame tops, or with a 

 bee-space betv a it and top 



frames 7 What a lot of queries 

 there are, dear readers, that you must 

 ultimately ask yourself. Get all the 



advice and assistance you can from 

 the query column, get our editors to 

 give you their best, but be c mvineed 

 in your own mind that the eour.-e rec- 

 ommended is the best according toyour 

 own particular surroundings, for he who 

 answers your query can only see part, 

 and can only answer according to his 

 lights. Heaven forbid thai 1 should 

 suggest that the authority is wrong I 

 I want you to only confirm the right 

 mentally, and then adopt. Even 

 upon Mich seemingly small matters as 

 distance guides, broad-shouldered 

 frames, or '\Y. B. (J." or metal ends, 

 to say nothing of remedies for foul 

 brood. In naphthaline, formic, sali- 

 cylic, or carbolic acid there is great 

 diversity of opinion. What is new 

 seems to be true but what is true very 

 often turns out anything but new, 

 therefore I conclude by answering my 

 own query thus: It is right to weigh 

 everybody in the balance of youroWD 

 judgment, adopt changes cautiously, 

 am! when a particular • suc- 

 ul, stick to it like wax.— R.A.M. 

 Grinibhaw in Be< '% Record 

 



: TL'RE USE, 



But little need aid on this sub- 



o hi I he understand ihe 



ssary in storing combs 



so as to keep properly, and to be of 



use later 



All honey should be extracted and 

 combs placed in super- over 

 strong colonies to be licked off. 

 .id time to do this will be before 

 the clover yields freely. They should 

 In- given to ihe bees in I he evening, 

 and will uio-i like! idy for re- 



moval next morning They can then 

 be placed well apart in empty hives; 



